Thanks everyone, Yes, over thinking about it. I was escaping and quoting, etc.

Works now!

-Jason

On Sep 11, 2008, at 8:48 AM, Clark Cox wrote:

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 4:03 AM, J. Todd Slack
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,

I guess what I dont get is when you pass arguments that are not simple like:

      [task setLaunchPath: @"/bin/ls"];
[task setArguments: [NSArray arrayWithObjects: @"ls", @"- al", @"/",
nil]];

What about a command that takes arguments like:

--segments /Users/slack/music/iTunes/iTunes Music/amber, 00:00:10,00:00:35
/user/slack/music/itunes/itunes music/01 amber.mp3

Where:

' --segments' is an argument

'/Users/slack/music/iTunes/iTunes Music/amber,00:00:10,00:00:35' is really
one argument I build up from pieces and has spaces in path

'/user/slack/music/itunes/itunes music/01 amber.mp3' is another argument
with spaces in path, etc

You're over-thinking it. There is no shell involved, so spaces don't matter:

[task setArguments: [NSArray arrayWithObjects: @"--segments",
@"/Users/slack/music/iTunes/iTunes Music/amber,00:00:10,00:00:35",
@"/user/slack/music/itunes/itunes music/01 amber.mp3", nil]];




-Jason

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